Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-03
SUMMARY
NOTES FROM THE DIAMOND.

Tony Mullane has q bad finger.
Baltimore has reiustated Davis.
Chicago sort of rubbed it in on Boston.
Shaw has a plentiful supply of peculiar
antics.
Coleman is an extremely sure fly catcher.
The A~lleghenys found their bat on Mon
day.
Washington never was successful against
Mccormick.
The Southern League has certainly had
its share of umpires.
DetrOit's new California pitcher is said
TO be a giant i'll stature.
Ferguson has struck out more men than
any League pitcher.
Carroll plays the outfeld as good as any
catcher in the country.
According to q Boston paper Radbourne
gets a better salary than Kelly.
There is a DAILY, Daily, Daely and
Dealy playing in the League.
Arson says the only trouble with Bald
win is a lack ofwill power.
Pitcher Stagg struck out forty-one mel
in the four Princeton games.
The New York team will yet make
good bid in the championship race.
Shaw has probably more pickEames than
any twirler in the country.
The Louisvilles are accused of giving
Chamberlain purpOsely loose support.
Manager Gaffney says Doescher is the
only League umpire worth looking at.
In Mccormick and Calvin Allegheny
certainly has good hitting pitchers.
Dunlap has been made captain Of the
Detroits, IS he has proved to be a more
capable a for the position than Hanlan,
The ball season will last nearly foul
more, and there Is time yet TO win and
lose the championship a dozen times.
1t will be a very bad season Of base bal
indeed when old Pete Browning's name
doesn't figure up near the head OF the
batting list.
Renner is the best waiter on the Buffalo
team, if not in the International League.
He went TO first four times on phantom
hits the other day.
Had Reipschlager batted and caught as
we'll for the Nets as he does for the Cleve-
land he would have been transferred to the
latter club.
The st. Louis terriers threaten TO mob
the Baltimore club when it goes West.
Barnie should take a few afidavits along
with him.
Farrell is the grand stand player OF the
Washingtons. The way be expresses dis
gust at an umpire's decision would make
a mule feel envious.
The struggle for second place in the As
ISOLATION will come off in earnest when the
Baltimores play two games IN Cincinnati
on the 4th Of July.
The New York Herald says there is nc
comparison between Latham and Burns,
and that in offensive coaching and kicking
the latter is peerless.
1t is said that bancroft, although man
ager of the Athletics, does not know ex'
actly how many members that club con
tains. This is ''tuff."
Millionaire Wiman is well pleased with
his Metropolitan venture. He is making
money on his base ball investment this
season. He deserves to.
Ward, Of New York, will likely be thu
base runner of the League this season l
he keeps up his work. Little Niool, o.
Cincinnati, will probably carry oil th'
honors in this line in the Association.
Jack Kerins, the catcher Of the Louis
vile base hall club, is inclined to be some
what tough. He picked mp Lem Nc
Gregor for a soft one while the Louisville
were in Cincinnati and got whipped for 1t
'Old Move-up Joe" was hurt in satur
days Metropolitan Brooklyn game. Ger
hardt has had his share Of bad luck TIN
season. But he is cheerful, and remember
that there is "a silver lining to ever,
cloud"
There is only one Kelly and one Latham
in the business. With these two exponent
of the monkey business Of base ball on on
team the spectators would not have tim
IN do other than watch their antics.